Play hundreds of HTML5 games on your Xbox One, PS4

[Cyan]

http://darkzero.co.uk/game-news/xboxie-helping-you-play-html-5-games-on-your-xbox-one/

Some of the games include: Pacman, Bejeweled... Free Rider HD, 1945, Lunar Lander, Onslaught Defense, iBasket, Pong... Pappu Pakia, Germiz, Astro Vault, Lux Ahoy, Solitaire, Rotario, Canonball Bash, Zombie Grinder, The Universe Within...

Hundreds more to come soon.

The best ideas are often the more simple ones, and Reddit user CitadelSaint has most certainly hit upon an interesting one – and executed on it very well to boot. His creation is called Xboxie.

Xboxie, like its name suggests (Xbox + IE), is a website you can visit using your Xbox One’s Internet Explorer browser.

Once on the website you can browse a list of HTML 5 based games – games that have been curated to make sure they work with the Xbox One controller. The site also lists how the games are best played.

CitadelSaint writes: “As most of HTML 5 games are designed with Keyboard in mind it means there is very little with controller support. After googling for hours to find working games I decided to put together a site with every game I’ve test and I know that works”

As you can see, the website is well laid out as to not look like a horrible mess on your Xbox One. The site does not host the games itself, just links to the places they have been made freely available on the web.

Updates are coming as well: “Over the next week I will be adding hundreds of games to the site (But I’ve been programming all today so I’ve decided to give myself a break),” he writes.

“Next week I will add the ability for you to be able to rate games, so once I’ve got a fair few in the database, the good ones will float to the top.”

You can also pin the website to your Xbox One Dashboard to have quick access to the games at any time.

http://playboxie.com/

It is the same service for the PS4 and it auto detects if you are using a PS4, PC or Xbox One when you load the webpage:

http://playboxie.com/

 

[AlphaWolf]

finally pong for xbox.

 

[Cyan]

finally pong for xbox.

:smile2: Interesting you mention that. T'was about time. There are quite a few Atari Arcade games with the Pong game but I haven't played them.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

http://www.sonyfied.com/

Same thing exists for PS4 too.

 

[zed]

I assume neither the xbone or ps4 support webgl?

 

[Gradthrawn]

I assume neither the xbone or ps4 support webgl?

If I understand correctly the PS4 OS is actually based on WebGL.

 

[AlphaWolf]

If I understand correctly the PS4 OS is actually based on WebGL.

Which means nothing in terms of supporting WebGL graphics. Because neither console does.

 

[Cyan]

I tried it now and the site has moved to http://playboxie.com/ and as its name indicates it works for both consoles, plus it auto detect whether you are using an PS4, PC or Xbox One to play on the site.

 

[blakjedi]

1945 is one of my favorite games ever...

 

[scooby_dooby]

finally pong for xbox.

I coded that game Our company was hired by Atari/MS to create a bunch of the "Atari Arcade" games, and both Pong and Lunar Lander were mine, cool to see them on the front page :smile: I also did Centipede and Combat, Combat was my favorite for sure.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

I coded that game Our company was hired by Atari/MS to create a bunch of the "Atari Arcade" games, and both Pong and Lunar Lander were mine, cool to see them on the front page :smile: I also did Centipede and Combat, Combat was my favorite for sure.

Dude ! !

Just curious, how do these guys earn from these projects? its just free to play, no strings attached.

 

[scooby_dooby]

Dude ! !

Just curious, how do these guys earn from these projects? its just free to play, no strings attached.

In this case, it was Microsoft funded project, as a showcase for IE10 at the time.

It was pretty fun actually, we had fairly free reign to re-imagine the art style and play style of the original games. For the most part though, we tried to stay true to the originals.

Schedule was pretty crazy, so a lot of them don't have the polish they should, but that's life...